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'Strong Scotland must produce 80-minute performance against Wales'

Your rugby views
[BBC]

We asked for your views after Gregor Townsend named his Scotland team to face Wales in the Six Nations.

Here is what some of you said:

Rob: Glad to see George Horne on the bench, I feel he is a more exciting player to Jamie Dobie. He's the sort of player that can make something happen to close out tight games.

Anon: Probably Scotland's strongest team bar the injured players. This is a game Scotland should win. The press are the only doubters. The Welsh calling Scotland arrogant? We may be confident but never can you call Scotland arrogant. A comfortable victory for the Scots I'm thinking.

Ronald: What a shame we have no options in the second row. Jonny Gray is very lucky that he's in Townsend's favourites clique because he is certainly not selected on his form in this Six Nations. Matt Fagerson is also lucky that Josh Bayliss and Andy Onyeama-Christie are injured, a shadow of the player from last season.

John: I would have liked Fergus Burke to get a crack on the bench with a possibility of coming on in the second half against Wales. Why wax lyrical about him when the squad was announced, yet he don't give him a sniff? Otherwise, strong team. Need to see an 80-minute performance from Scotland and to be ruthless in the Welsh 22.

Paul: No surprise that Townsend has largely stuck to the same side that came within a conversion of winning against England. Despite that decent performance and narrow defeat, I'd still liked to have seen some tweaks to the pack, notably second row.

David: Not too many options. Backs pick themselves and it's great to have Darcy Graham back. Would have liked to have had some options in the forwards but injury really has limited options. This will be a very tricky match, Scotland v Wales are always tough attack-minded games. Scotland to win, but very tight.